All Environment
- Saving the Amazon: How cattle ranchers can halt deforestation
In Brazil’s largest cattle-producing region near the Amazon rainforest, ranches that once caused deforestation may now help stop it.
- Going uphill: More skiers take the sport back to its roots
As ski resorts expand their glamorous amenities and lift lines lengthen, some skiers are seeking a simpler, more natural experience.
- First LookHow India's women farmers are taking the lead on climate change
Globally, women's leadership in agriculture is increasingly being recognized as essential to tackling climate change. In India, women are changing farming and relationships in their communities.
- Who owns the Amazon?
After rampant wildfire inflamed global debate over who owns the Amazon, can incentives cool tensions between development and preservation?
- Next up for the world’s museums: Social responsibility
Post-Hurricane Dorian, the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas offers an example of an evolving art world.
- First LookToxic cleanups reach 30-year low under Trump
President Donald Trump campaigned on promises to put business ahead of environmental interests. Last year, the federal government completed cleanups at six Superfund sites, the fewest since 1986.
- First LookJeff Bezos pledges $10B of personal fortune to fight climate change
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will be awarding grants to scientists, activists, and nonprofits working to solve problems around global climate change. He is also pledging to eliminate his tech giant's carbon footprint by 2040.
- FocusWhere climate change threatens ancient sites and modern livelihoods
North Africa may not be front and center in the West’s discussion of climate change, but the challenges here are pressing – and lacking resources.
- Solar and wind energy trounced the forecasts. Can they do it again?
The amount of solar and wind power being generated in the U.S. is more than 30 times the amount predicted by the government in 2000.
- Trump’s new water rule: What it means for mines and pollution
The Trump administration’s answer to the Obama-era clean water rule may be a boon for this South Carolina gold mine.
- Cover StoryShould we fiddle with Earth’s thermostat? This man might know how.
A Harvard scientist studies reflecting the sun away from Earth to lower its thermostat – an idea so radical even he hopes it won’t be used.
- FocusIn Australia, searching for common ground amid scorched earth
Australia’s fires may prompt new cooperation on environmental policy, many hope, in a coal-dependent country where views on climate change diverge.
- Trump takes on 50 years of environmental regulations, one by one
The move would reduce the scope of environmental assessments of big projects, part of an unprecedented effort to roll back 50 years of policy.
- First LookMediterranean Sea ecology altered by invasive species
Nearly 400 invasive aquatic species are drastically changing the Mediterranean ecosystem. Officials and scientists debate the cause.
- First LookScientists say 2010 was hottest decade ever recorded on Earth
Recent study shows 2019 was the second-hottest year ever recorded and human-caused global warming will keep breaking records, say two new reports.
- Cover StoryTaming an American icon: Can we protect wild horses and Western lands?
Wild horses are overrunning rangeland in the West. Now a solution may be emerging that can help save an American icon – and the land.
- Difference MakerThailand’s Steve Irwin wants to make snakes less scary
Nirut Chomngam shares his knowledge with villagers in the Southeast Asian nation, where snakes frequently cross paths with humans.
- 800 million animals, 26 million acres. Australia’s tragedy in numbers.
The numbers coming out of Australia’s bushfires are jarring. Our graphics team helps to bring the scale into focus.
- Deep in Trump Country, mixed feelings on the environment
Residents of Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw River Delta hold conflicting beliefs about government regulation and protecting the land from polluters.
- First LookRare conservation ‘home run’ as West Coast fishery rebounds
Bottom trawler fishermen have been cast as pillagers of the sea. But a new deal shows how they can be at the heart of innovation and conservation.